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Arlington police present 2024 use-of-force report; chief and independent reviewer cite robust documentation and ongoing analysis
Summary
Chief Al Jones told the City Council that Arlington officers responded to roughly 240,000 calls for service in 2024 and the department documented its use-of-force incidents for trend analysis, training and external reporting; an independent review found early signs the force applied matched subject resistance in sampled incidents.
Chief Al Jones, chief of the Arlington Police Department, presented the department’s 2024 Use of Force Report to the City Council, telling members that officers responded to roughly over 240,000 calls for service in 2024 and that the department documented what it describes as 1,235 use-of-force incidents involving 1,782 subjects.
The report said Arlington participates in the FBI’s National Use of Force Collection Project and that six incidents in 2024 met the FBI’s stricter reporting criteria (death, serious injury, or an officer discharge). Jones described a multilevel review process in which sergeants, lieutenants and deputy chiefs — plus a training-center review unit — examine every use-of-force report for policy compliance, training needs and trends.
The report outlines operational changes made since 2022: the department began tracking subject residency (resident, visitor or unhoused); patrol units received a 40-millimeter less-lethal launcher in 2023 (previously limited to SWAT); and officers received ballistic-shield training in…
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